When people in mainstream America think of violence, they also
think of poverty: the deviant, defiant, dangerous "underclass" or "undeserving poor." Such
stereotypes contain a grain of truth amid their untruths, but bad apples exist in all classes, from
muggers among the poor to manufacturers of defective products among the wealthy. (It is interesting
that no one ever complains about an undeserving middle class.)
­­ HERBERT J. GANS